"With its dusty streets, stunning mountain vistas and crumbling stone walls, the Bolivian hamlet of Villaserena is one of those magical spots that seems to exist outside ordinary time and space." - New York Times

Into this blissful remove comes a mysterious stranger who sets up a radio and loudspeakers in the town square, playing music (Elvis, no less!) and selling air-time to townspeople to broadcast their dirty laundry ...and secret desires. When the radio operator falls in love with the shackled daughter of a cuckolded husband, The Day Silence Died settles into its "dreamy, lyrical way, gathering a comic momentum built on themes of sexual jealousy and theatrical legerdemain." - New York Times

"Teases the boundary between reality and imagination...Garcia Marquez by way of Hollywood." - New York Times

"A sun-dappled romance, buoyant and wryly funny!" - Newsday

"Sensuous, beguiling, enchanting!" - Chicago Reader